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On the recordNovember 18, 2020
I am here today to join some of my fellow Senators here to talk about giving thanks to our military servicemembers and our veterans. Certainly, this is the thankful and grateful season that we are heading into. I think November has a lot of celebratory times both for our families and also for our veterans and military families. There is no question that this year has been most different and has looked very different than most. We have faced so many challenges and adjusted to a new norm of teleworking, telehealth, telecommuting, all kinds of different ways to communicate on our devices, FaceTiming--I do a lot of FaceTiming with my family--and other socially distanced activities, and I don't see that coming to an end in the near future. But in the midst of all of this, we certainly do have so much to be grateful for and thankful for. A little fun fact is, I was actually born on Thanksgiving Day, and my parents always joked that they were going to name me ``Thankful Ever Moore'' because my last name was Moore at the time. And while my parents, thankfully, decided to go a different route with my name, the meaning still holds true today. It is true because I am thankful evermore for many things, especially, as I said, as we approach this Thanksgiving holiday, which is just around the corner. And it is going to look a little bit different for a lot of people, but that doesn't mean it can't be just as special.…
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Shelley Moore Capito
Republican · West Virginia

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